Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Link to project VIDEO from Carter Work Project site--RESEND ( hopefully without errors this time) click here also to go to BLOG




2011 Carter Work Project: One week, 100 homes


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A celebratory look back in video and photos as hundreds of Habitat for Humanity volunteers spent a week building 100 homes with families in need in Haiti.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

TRIAL LINK TO INITIAL BUILD SITE PHOTOS FROM HABITAT

Roughly 100 houses will be built by hundreds of Habitat volunteers during the 28th Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Haiti's new Santo community. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

THE FLIGHT OVER

THIS IS FROM THE CARTER NEWS SITE:

Volunteers get personal thanks from Carter on the way to Haiti

By Phil Kloer
 
President Jimmy Carter greets volunteers Sunday on their Delta Air Lines charter flight to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The former president shook the hand of each volunteer on the flight and thanked them for helping the Santo community. © Allen Sullivan/Habitat for Humanity
   

Nearly 500 volunteers for the 2011 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project took two chartered Delta Air Lines planes to
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday.

Volunteers assigned to the first flight early Sunday morning got an unexpected treat when former U.S. President Jimmy Carter walked through the passenger cabin and shook the hands of all 200-plus people on the flight.

Carter smiled softly and thanked each volunteer for coming.

“It was total excitement, just pandemonium,” said Karen Steinberg, a U.S. Air flight attendant from Decatur, Georgia, who is joining her first Carter Work Project. “Everybody just jumped up and started taking photos, so I think I have a photo of someone’s earlobe. I was so nervous when I finally shook hands with him; I forget what I said to him.”

“I didn’t really think I would get to shake his hand,” said Deb McNally of Hudson, Wisconsin, another Carter Work Project novice. “He was so gracious, and I felt so honored.”

The volunteers were bused from the Port-au-Prince airport to a campsite in Christianville, about an hour outside the Haitian capital run by Haven Partnership, an Irish nongovernmental organization. There they settled into tents with simple cots and mosquito netting, with four to 10 volunteers sharing a tent. They will live in the campsite for the next week and commute about a half-hour to Santo, the construction site. There, 100 concrete foundations have been set in the ground and await the volunteers Monday morning, along with 100 Haitian families who will be getting new homes in one week.

Phil Kloer is a senior writer/editor for Habitat for Humanity International, based in Atlanta.


President Jimmy Carter greets volunteers Sunday on their Delta Air Lines charter flight to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The former president shook the hand of each volunteer on the flight and thanked them for helping the Santo community. © Allen Sullivan/Habitat for Humanity
   

Monday, November 14, 2011

CHECKING IN : I AM BACK

Returned Saturday with plans to download a million photos, blog away, and simultaneously organize my whole life. Actuality was , after getting up at 1:45 local  New Orleans time , catching the bus at the equivalent of 2:00 AM, opening the airport in Port au Prince , flights to Atlanta and then New Orleans, with arrival at 5PM here, I was a bit tired. After dinner with Dan Tolley and Kathy McKinney, I got home to my deprived two cats and simply watched some pre recorded horsemanship shows before I collapsed.
Sunday I was up before daybreak ( I am normally NOT an "A.M." person) and started laundry and sorting through my journal notes. Best intentions were replaced by the mundane needs of a nearly empty gas tank, groceries, job preparation , emails, calls, checking in with friends, and then the day was gone. I am now working .
Looks like the Blog will have to wait a few more days.
I promise loads of photos, and great information.